What price press freedom?
This has been a chaotic week in American politics, between the abrupt ouster of former FBI Director James Comey, chaos at town halls as constituents react to the American Health Care Act, the...
Category: North America
Can Immigrants Use Stereotypes to Succeed in America?
When my aunt moved to the US in the early 1980s, she needed to find work. Though she’d worked nearly her whole life as a skilled, bi-lingual, executive assistant to higher-ups in large...
Color Me Skeptical
Will every conservative in the #NeverTrump movement please step forward to collect your participation trophy? Don’t get me wrong — it is commendable that some members of the GOP...
If Asian Enclaves Are Endangered, What Does that Mean For Asian-Americans?
Do a quick Internet search for tourist attractions in any one of America’s major metropolitan cities, and no doubt a tourism website or travel “listicle” will come up urging you to visit that...
6 ways to fight resistance fatigue
We’re only three months into Donald Trump’s (likely) four-year term, but for many activists, it already feels much longer. The daily onslaught of disturbing developments is exhausting....
Democrats Choosing Sanders to Lead are Leaving Too Much of their Base Behind
At this very moment, Bernie Sanders has joined Tom Perez in an ongoing series of unity rallies. Can we unite? It’s hard to know. If uniting means putting Bernie in charge? Many of us will...
How Did Race Motivate United Airlines’ Treatment of Dr. David Dao?
By now, I suspect that most everyone with access to the Internet has seen the videos of Dr. David Dao being dragged from a United Airlines plane at Chicago’s O’Hare International Airport. At...
Ossoff, Thompson, and the future of Democrats in red states
After today, Democrats will have a much better idea of how many House seats could swing their way in 2018, as James Thompson and Ron Estes face off in a special election to fill Mike...
The Chinese Exclusion Act and the Muslim Ban: An American Tradition of Alienation
In 1882 America banned Chinese people from coming to America. It was the first time that America placed legislative restrictions and regulations on a group of people who sought entry into the United...
The American right is criminalizing immigrants
In Trump’s February 28th address to a joint session of Congress, he announced the creation of a new office in the Department of Homeland Security, VOICE — Victims of Immigration Crime Engagement...